Bibliography

affect

Massumi, B. (1995). The autonomy of affect. Cultural Critique, 31, 83–109. JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1354446
Massumi, B. (2002). Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/parables-for-the-virtual
Ahmed, S. (2004). The Cultural Politics of Emotion. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-cultural-politics-of-emotion
Brennan, T. (2004). The Transmission of Affect. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. https://cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801489708/the-transmission-of-affect/
Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/vibrant-matter
Blackman, L. (2012). Immaterial Bodies: Affect, Embodiment, Mediation. London: SAGE. https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/immaterial-bodies/book236085
Gregg, M., & Seigworth, G. J. (Eds.). (2010). The Affect Theory Reader. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-affect-theory-reader
Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1987). A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/a-thousand-plateaus

Knudsen, B. T., & Stage, C. (Eds.). (2015). Affective Methodologies: Developing Cultural Research Strategies for the Study of Affect. Palgrave Macmillan. Overview and TOC at SpringerLink: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137483195; chapter introduction: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137483195_1
Ahmed, S. (2004). The Cultural Politics of Emotion. Edinburgh University Press.
Massumi, B. (2002). Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation. Duke University Press.
Blackman, L. (2012). Immaterial Bodies: Affect, Embodiment, Mediation. Sage.
Gibbs, A. (2015). Writing as Method: Attunement, Resonance, and Rhythm. In Knudsen & Stage (Eds.), Affective Methodologies (pp. 222–236). Palgrave Macmillan. (see TOC: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137483195)
Springgay, S. (2011). The Ethico-Aesthetics of Affect and a Sensational Pedagogy. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 9(1), 66–82.
Lury, C., & Wakeford, N. (Eds.). (2012). Inventive Methods: The Happening of the Social. Routledge.

affirmative Difference

Deleuze, G. (1994). Difference and Repetition. New York: Columbia University Press. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/difference-and-repetition/9780231081597
Braidotti, R. (2013). The Posthuman. Cambridge: Polity. https://www.politybooks.com/the-posthuman/
Braidotti, R. (2006). Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics. Cambridge: Polity.
Grosz, E. (2011). Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/becoming-undone
Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/vibrant-matter

agency

Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Duke University Press.
Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Duke University Press.
Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1987). A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. University of Minnesota Press.

agential cut

Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/meeting-the-universe-halfway Barad, K. (2014). Diffracting diffraction: Cutting together-apart. Parallax, 20(3), 168–187. Publisher page: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13534645.2014.927623 (overview listing at Open Readings: https://openreadings.wordpress.com/texts/karen-barad/) Barad, K. (2003). Posthumanist performativity: Toward an understanding of how matter comes to matter. Signs, 28(3), 801–831. [JSTOR access may be required] Bozalek, V., & Fullagar, S. (eds.). (2021). A Glossary for Doing Postqualitative New Materialist and Critical Posthumanist Research Across Disciplines.

agential realism

Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/meeting-the-universe-halfway Barad, K. (2003). Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter. Signs, 28(3), 801–831. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/345321 Barad, K. (2014). Diffracting diffraction: Cutting together-apart. Parallax, 20(3), 168–187. Overview listing and links: https://openreadings.wordpress.com/texts/karen-barad/ Haraway, D. (1997). Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse™. New York: Routledge. Ulmer, J. B. (2017). Posthumanism as research methodology: Inquiry in the Anthropocene. In P. L. Thomas (Ed.), Handbook of research on the new literacies (pp. 255-272). Routledge.

agents Against Agency (AAA)

Rachev, R. (2016). Agents Against Agency (AAA). New Materialism Almanac. https://newmaterialism.eu/almanac/a/agents-against-agency.html

Ingold, T. (2007). Materials against materiality. Archaeological Dialogues, 14(1), 1–16.
Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Duke University Press. Overview at Duke UP: https://www.dukeupress.edu/meeting-the-universe-halfway
Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Duke University Press.
Latour, B. (2010). An attempt at a “compositionist manifesto.” New Literary History, 41(3), 471–490.
Ahmed, S. (2006). Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Duke University Press.

algorithm

Amoore, L. (2020). Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Crawford, K. (2021). Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Deleuze, G. (1992). Postscript on the Societies of Control. October, 59, 3–7.
Gillespie, T. (2018). Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions that Shape Social Media. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Massumi, B. (2015). Ontopower: War, Powers, and the State of Perception. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Seaver, N. (2022). Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Open excerpt: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo132404728.html
Striphas, T. (2015). Algorithmic Culture. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 18(4–5), 395–412. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549415577392
Williamson, B. (2017). Big Data in Education: The Digital Future of Learning, Policy and Practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.

Useful orientation to Barad’s apparatus and performativity (for linking algorithmic performativity): Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the Universe Halfway. Duke University Press. Publisher page: https://www.dukeupress.edu/meeting-the-universe-halfway

altergorithm

Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/meeting-the-universe-halfway
Braidotti, R. (2019). Posthuman knowledge. Polity.
Haraway, D. (2016). Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.
Kitchin, R. (2017). Thinking critically about and researching algorithms. Information, Communication & Society, 20(1), 14–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1154087
Noble, S. U. (2018). Algorithms of oppression: How search engines reinforce racism. NYU Press.
Pasquale, F. (2015). The black box society: The secret algorithms that control money and information. Harvard University Press.
Seaver, N. (2019). Captivating algorithms: Recommender systems as traps. Journal of Material Culture, 24(4), 421–436. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183518820366Suchman, L. (2023). Algorithmic accountability in context. Big Data & Society, 10(2), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231186169 Williamson, B., Bayne, S., & Shay, S. (2020). The datafication of teaching in higher education. Learning, Media and Technology, 45(3), 270–283. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2020.1778355

apparatus

Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/meeting-the-universe-halfway
Barad, K. (2003). Posthumanist performativity: Toward an understanding of how matter comes to matter. Signs, 28(3), 801–831.
Barad, K. (2014). Diffracting diffraction: Cutting together-apart. Parallax, 20(3), 168–187. Publisher overview: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13534645.2014.927623 Haraway, D. (1997). Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse™. Routledge.
Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Duke University Press.

assemblage

Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1987). A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Massumi, B. (2015). Politics of Affect. Cambridge: Polity.
Braidotti, R. (2013). The Posthuman. Cambridge: Polity.
Fox, N. J., & Alldred, P. (2015). New materialist social inquiry: Designs, methods and the research-assemblage. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 18(4), 399–414.
Fenwick, T., Edwards, R., & Sawchuk, P. (2011). Emerging Approaches to Educational Research: Tracing the Sociomaterial. London: Routledge.
Taylor, C. A. (2013). Objects, bodies and space: Gender and embodied practices of mattering in the classroom. Gender and Education, 25(6), 688–703.

atmosphere

Ahmed, S. (2014). The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2nd ed.). Edinburgh University Press.
Ahmed, S. (2006). Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Duke University Press.
Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/meeting-the-universe-halfway
Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Duke University Press.
Berlant, L. (2011). Cruel Optimism. Duke University Press.
Massumi, B. (2002). Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation. Duke University Press.
Stewart, K. (2011). Atmospheric attunements. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 29(3), 445–453. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/d9109
Thibaud, J.-P. (2015). The backstage of urban ambiances: When atmospheres pervade everyday experience. Emotion, Space and Society, 15, 39–46. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755458615000219
Tsing, A. (2015). The Mushroom at the End of the World. Princeton University Press.

attunement

Ahmed, S. (2006). Queer phenomenology: Orientations, objects, others. Duke University Press.
Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/meeting-the-universe-halfway
Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant matter: A political ecology of things. Duke University Press.
Blackman, L. (2019). Haunted data: Affect, transmedia, weird science. Bloomsbury.
MacLure, M. (2013). Researching without representation? Language and materiality in post-qualitative methodology. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 26(6), 658–667. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2013.788755
Manning, E. (2016). The minor gesture. Duke University Press.
Massumi, B. (2015). Politics of affect. Polity.
St. Pierre, E. A. (2011). Post qualitative research: The critique and the coming after. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of qualitative research (4th ed., pp. 611–625). SAGE.

authorship

Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/meeting-the-universe-halfway
Barthes, R. (1967/1977). The Death of the Author. University of Pennsylvania posting of the translation: https://writing.upenn.edu/~taransky/Barthes.pdf
Foucault, M. (1969/1977). What is an Author? Accessible scan via Open University: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/pluginfile.php/624849/mod_resource/content/1/a840_1_michel_foucault.pdf
Haraway, D. (1985/1991). A Manifesto for Cyborgs. Open PDF access (teaching copy): https://www.sfu.ca/~decaste/OISE/page2/files/HarawayCyborg.pdf

becoming

Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1987/2014). A Thousand Plateaus. Trans. B. Massumi. Bloomsbury.
Deleuze, G. (1994). Difference and Repetition. Trans. P. Patton. Columbia University Press. Overview: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Deleuze: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/deleuze/
Braidotti, R. (2013). The Posthuman. Polity.
Haraway, D. (2016). Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822373780
Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/meeting-the-universe-halfway
Massumi, B. (2015). Politics of Affect. Polity.
Colebrook, C. (2002). Gilles Deleuze. Routledge.

For a concise overview of agential realism texts (including “On Touching” and “Diffracting diffraction”), see curated links listed here: https://openreadings.wordpress.com/texts/karen-barad/

becoming-with

Haraway, D. (2007). When Species Meet. University of Minnesota Press. https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816650460/when-species-meet/
Haraway, D. (2016). Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press. Book gateway: https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/27/Staying-with-the-TroubleMaking-Kin-in-the; summary with thesis quote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staying_with_the_Trouble
Despret, V., & Meuret, M. (2016). Cosmo-ecology and attention in multispecies relations.

Van Dooren, T. (2019). The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds. Columbia University Press. Duke University Press; Wikipedia summary; see also When Species Meet, University of Minnesota Press

body

Haraway, D. (1991). Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge. PDF available via Monoskop: https://monoskop.org/images/f/f3/Haraway_Donna_J_Simians_Cyborgs_and_Women_The_Reinvention_of_Nature.pdf
Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Alaimo, S. (2010). Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Publisher page: https://iupress.org/9780253222404/bodily-natures/
Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Publisher page: https://dukeupress.edu/vibrant-matter
Braidotti, R. (2013). The Posthuman. Cambridge: Polity.
Ahmed, S. (2004). The Cultural Politics of Emotion. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Massumi, B. (2002). Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Hayles, N. K. (1999). How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Blackman, L. (2012). Immaterial Bodies: Affect, Embodiment, Mediation. London: SAGE.
Springgay, S., & Truman, S. E. (2017). Walking Methodologies in a More-than-Human World. London: Routledge.

A Glossary for Doing Postqualitative New Materialist and Critical Posthumanist Research Across Disciplines (entries on Body, Agency, Affect, Assemblage). The “Body” entry emphasizes permeability, intra-action, and capacities, aligning with Deleuze & Guattari’s emphasis on what bodies can do, Haraway’s question about bodily boundaries, and postqualitative method experiments with movement and research-creation.
Posthuman Glossary; More Posthuman Glossary.

boundary

Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Duke University Press. Publisher page: https://www.dukeupress.edu/meeting-the-universe-halfway
Barad, K. (2003). Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter. Signs, 28(3), 801–831. DOI page: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/345321
Haraway, D. (1991). Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. Routledge. (For the “why should bodies end at the skin?” problem-space; see discussions such as Shildrick, 2015.)
Shildrick, M. (2015). “Why Should Our Bodies End at the Skin?”: Embodiment, Boundaries, and Somatechnics. Hypatia, 30(1), 13–29. Abstract: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/hypa.12114
New Materialism Almanac: Performativity (context for material-discursive boundary-making). https://newmaterialism.eu/almanac/p/performativity.html

care

Ahmed, S. (2014). The cultural politics of emotion (2nd ed.). Edinburgh University Press.
Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/meeting-the-universe-halfway
Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant matter: A political ecology of things. Duke University Press.
Braidotti, R. (2013). The posthuman. Polity.
Haraway, D. (2016). Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.
Matias, C. E., & Zembylas, M. (2014). When saying you care is not really caring: Emotions of disgust, whiteness ideology, and teacher education. Critical Studies in Education, 55(3), 319–337. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2014.922489
Puig de la Bellacasa, M. (2017). Matters of care: Speculative ethics in more than human worlds. University of Minnesota Press.
Star, S. L., & Ruhleder, K. (1996). Steps toward an ecology of infrastructure: Design and access for large information spaces. Information Systems Research, 7(1), 111–134. https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.7.1.111
Tsing, A. L. (2015). The mushroom at the end of the world: On the possibility of life in capitalist ruins. Princeton University Press.

Web resources:
Barad, K. (2014). Diffracting diffraction: Cutting together-apart. Parallax, 20(3), 168–187. Overview page: https://openreadings.wordpress.com/texts/karen-barad/

composition

Renold, E., Ringrose, J., & Warfield, K. (Eds.). (2023). A glossary for doing postqualitative new materialist and critical posthumanist research across disciplines. other articles and resources:

Barad, K. (2014). Diffracting diffraction: Cutting together-apart. Parallax, 20(3), 168–187. Publisher page: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13534645.2014.927623 Emerson, L., & MacKay, J. (2020). Rhetorical assemblages and writing with/in networks. College Composition and Communication, 71(4), 554–582. Boyle, C. (2018). Rhetoric as a posthuman practice. Ohio State University Press. Rickert, T. (2013). Ambient rhetoric: The attunements of rhetorical being. University of Pittsburgh Press.

creativity

Ahmed, S. (2014). The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2nd ed.). Edinburgh University Press.
Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/meeting-the-universe-halfway
Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Duke University Press.
Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1987). A Thousand Plateaus. University of Minnesota Press.
Haraway, D. (2016). Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.
Massumi, B. (2015). Politics of Affect. Polity.
Manning, E. (2016). The Minor Gesture. Duke University Press.
Manning, E., & Massumi, B. (2014). Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience. University of Minnesota Press.
Simondon, G. (2020). Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information (T. Adkins, Trans.). University of Minnesota Press.
Stengers, I. (2018). Another Science is Possible: A Manifesto for Slow Science. Polity.

Selected recent overviews and accessible touchpoints:
Barad, K. (2014). Diffracting diffraction: Cutting together-apart. Parallax, 20(3), 168–187. Overview gateway via Open Readings listing: https://openreadings.wordpress.com/texts/karen-barad/
Duke University Press book page for Meeting the Universe Halfway (for citation details and TOC): https://www.dukeupress.edu/meeting-the-universe-halfway

creative Materiality

Helpful overview lists for Barad’s diffractive and agential realist work: Open Readings. https://openreadings.wordpress.com/texts/karen-barad/

cyborg

Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant matter: A political ecology of things. Duke University Press.
Braidotti, R. (2013). The posthuman. Polity.
Haraway, D. (1988). Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective. Feminist Studies, 14(3), 575–599. https://doi.org/10.2307/3178066
Haraway, D. (1991). A cyborg manifesto: Science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century. In Simians, cyborgs, and women: The reinvention of nature (pp. 149–181). Routledge.
Hayles, N. K. (1999). How we became posthuman: Virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature, and informatics. University of Chicago Press.
Suchman, L. (2007). Human–machine reconfigurations: Plans and situated actions (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Contemporary overview of Haraway’s corpus and key articles indexed: Open Readings. https://openreadings.wordpress.com/texts/karen-barad/

cyborgification

Ahmed, S. (2014). The cultural politics of emotion (2nd ed.). Edinburgh University Press. Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/meeting-the-universe-halfway Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant matter: A political ecology of things. Duke University Press. Braidotti, R. (2013). The posthuman. Polity. Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1987). A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia (B. Massumi, Trans.). University of Minnesota Press. Galloway, A. R., & Thacker, E. (2007). The exploit: A theory of networks. University of Minnesota Press. Haraway, D. (1991). A cyborg manifesto: Science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century. In Simians, cyborgs, and women: The reinvention of nature (pp. 149–181). Routledge. Haraway, D. (1997). Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism and technoscience. Routledge. Hayles, N. K. (1999). How we became posthuman: Virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature, and informatics. University of Chicago Press. Massumi, B. (2002). Parables for the virtual: Movement, affect, sensation. Duke University Press. Murris, K. (2016). The posthuman child: Educational transformation through philosophy with picturebooks. Routledge. Papacharissi, Z. (2015). Affective publics: Sentiment, technology, and politics. Oxford University Press. Puar, J. K. (2017). The right to maim: Debility, capacity, disability. Duke University Press. Selwyn, N. (2019). Should robots replace teachers? AI and the future of education. Polity.

Selected external links:

Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” (open access reprints vary; Routledge book chapter is canonical).
Barad overview and publications list with links to key pieces via Open Readings: https://openreadings.wordpress.com/texts/karen-barad/
Duke University Press page for Barad (2007): https://www.dukeupress.edu/meeting-the-universe-halfway

data

Ahmed, S. (2012). On being included: Racism and diversity in institutional life. Duke University Press.
Bates, J., Lin, Y.-W., & Goodale, P. (2016). Data journeys: Capturing provenance, formation, and transformation of data. International Journal of Digital Curation, 11(2), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v11i2.389
Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/meeting-the-universe-halfway
Bowker, G. C., & Star, S. L. (1999). Sorting things out: Classification and its consequences. MIT Press.
boyd, d., & Crawford, K. (2012). Critical questions for Big Data. Information, Communication & Society, 15(5), 662–679. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2012.678878
D’Ignazio, C., & Klein, L. F. (2020). Data feminism. MIT Press. https://datafeminism.io
Gitelman, L. (Ed.). (2013). “Raw data” is an oxymoron. MIT Press.
Haraway, D. (1988). Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective. Feminist Studies, 14(3), 575–599.
Kallinikos, J., Aaltonen, A., & Marton, A. (2013). The ambivalent ontology of digital artifacts. MIS Quarterly, 37(2), 357–370.
Kitchin, R. (2014). The data revolution: Big Data, open data, data infrastructures & their consequences. Sage.
Pasquale, F. (2015). The black box society. Harvard University Press.

datafication

Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/meeting-the-universe-halfway

Bozalek, V., & Kuby, C. R. (2021). Data. In K. Murris (Ed.), Navigating the postqualitative, new materialist and critical posthumanist terrain across disciplines: An introductory guide (pp. 49–54). Routledge. [See uploaded: A Glossary for Doing Postqualitative… Across Disciplines.pdf]

Couldry, N., & Mejias, U. A. (2019). The costs of connection: How data is colonizing human life and appropriating it for capitalism. Stanford University Press.

Haraway, D. (2016). Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.

Kitchin, R. (2014). The data revolution: Big data, open data, data infrastructures and their consequences. SAGE.

Pasquale, F. (2015). The black box society: The secret algorithms that control money and information. Harvard University Press.

Taylor, L., Floridi, L., & van der Sloot, B. (Eds.). (2017). Group privacy: New challenges of data technologies. Springer.

Williamson, B. (2017). Big data in education: The digital future of learning, policy and practice. SAGE.

Zuboff, S. (2019). The age of surveillance capitalism: The fight for a human future at the new frontier of power. PublicAffairs.

From uploaded resources: Posthuman Glossary; More Posthuman Glossary (see “Posthuman Data” entry and cumulative bibliography).

External pointers:

Barad text list and articles overview: https://openreadings.wordpress.com/texts/karen-barad/
Duke University Press page for Meeting the Universe Halfway: https://www.dukeupress.edu/meeting-the-universe-halfway

difference

diffraction

diffractive Genealogies

Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/meeting-the-universe-halfway Barad, K. (2014). Diffracting diffraction: Cutting together-apart. Parallax, 20(3), 168–187. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2014.927623 (overview: https://openreadings.wordpress.com/texts/karen-barad/)
Foucault, M. (1991). Nietzsche, genealogy, history. In P. Rabinow (Ed.), The Foucault reader (pp. 76–100). Penguin.
Haraway, D. (1997). Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism and technoscience. Routledge.
Haraway, D. (2016). Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.
St. Pierre, E. A. (2019). Post qualitative inquiry in an ontology of immanence. Qualitative Inquiry, 25(1), 3–16. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800418772634
Jackson, A. Y., & Mazzei, L. A. (2012). Thinking with theory in qualitative research: Viewing data across multiple perspectives. Routledge.
Ahmed, S. (2014). The cultural politics of emotion (2nd ed.). Edinburgh University Press.
Massumi, B. (2015). Politics of affect. Polity.
Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant matter: A political ecology of things. Duke University Press.

diffractive Pedagogies

Aguilera, E., & Vickery, A. E. (2020). Ideologies of data and data literacy: Critical approaches to data in secondary English classrooms. Research in the Teaching of English, 54(4), 367–390. Bainbridge, A., & Carr, D. (2022). Posthuman pedagogies in practice: Arts-based responses to technology and the more-than-human. International Journal of Education Through Art, 18(2), 173–188. https://doi.org/10.1386/eta_00089_1

diffractive Reading

Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke University Press. Haraway, D. J. (1997). Modest_witness@second_millennium.FemaleMan_meets_oncomouse™: Feminism and technoscience. Routledge. Jackson, A. Y., & Mazzei, L. A. (2012). Thinking with theory in qualitative research: Viewing data across multiple perspectives. Routledge. Jackson, A. Y., & Mazzei, L. A. (2013). Plugging one text into another: A diffractive reading of data and theory. Qualitative Inquiry, 19(4), 261–271. [https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800412468053](https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800412468053

diffractive Journaling

Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/meeting-the-universe-halfway Barad, K. (2014). Diffracting diffraction: Cutting together-apart. Parallax, 20(3), 168–187. (Overview and links) https://openreadings.wordpress.com/texts/karen-barad/ Bozalek, V., & Murris, K. (Eds.). (2021). A glossary for doing postqualitative new materialist and critical posthumanist research across disciplines. Routledge. Murris, K. (2016). Teaching postqualitatively (Report). University of Cape Town. (Mentions diffractive journaling in documenting postqualitative pedagogies.) https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/files/335370786/Teaching_postqualitatively_FINAL_REVISION.pdf Yang, H.-C. (2021). A diffractive ethnography of becoming Reggio-inspired teachers in Taiwan (Doctoral dissertation, Florida State University). (Uses observation, intraview, and diffractive journaling as applied methods.) https://search.proquest.com/openview/f55c525860e1165498fa6bec1c1fa441/1 Rousell, D., & Fell, F. (2023). Meandering as learning: Co-creating care with Camissa Oceans in place. Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 11(2), 33–54. (Engages diffractive journaling as inquiry with ecological attunements.) https://www.scielo.org.za/pdf/cristal/v11n2/03.pdf Haraway, D. (1997). Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism and technoscience. Routledge. MacLure, M. (2013). Researching without representation? Language and materiality in post-qualitative methodology. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 26(6), 658–667. (For “data that glow” as an analytic sensibility consonant with diffractive journaling.)

documentation

Braidotti, R., & Hlavajova, M. (Eds.). (2018). Posthuman glossary. Bloomsbury. Ringrose, J., et al. (Eds.). (2024). A glossary for doing postqualitative new materialist and critical posthumanist research across disciplines.

Targeted articles and chapters available online:
Barad, K. (2014). Diffracting diffraction: Cutting together-apart. Parallax, 20(3), 168–187. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13534645.2014.927623
Haraway, D. (1988). Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective. Feminist Studies, 14(3), 575–599. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3178066

ecology

Alaimo, S. (2016). Exposed: Environmental politics and pleasures in posthuman times. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning.

Durham, NC: Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/meeting-the-universe-halfway

Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant matter: A political ecology of things. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Braidotti, R., & Hlavajova, M. (Eds.). (2018). Posthuman glossary. London, UK: Bloomsbury.

Braidotti, R., Jones, E., & Klumbytė, G. (Eds.). (2023). More posthuman glossary. London, UK: Bloomsbury.

Gabrys, J. (2016). Program earth: Environmental sensing technology and the making of a computational planet. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Haraway, D. (2016). Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Hörl, E. (Ed.). (2017). General ecology: The new ecological paradigm. London, UK: Bloomsbury.

Kimmerer, R. W. (2013). Braiding sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions.

Kirksey, E. (2015). Emergent ecologies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Massumi, B. (2015). Politics of affect. Cambridge, UK: Polity.

Neimanis, A. (2017). Bodies of water: Posthuman feminist phenomenology. London, UK: Bloomsbury.

Povinelli, E. (2016). Geontologies: A requiem to late liberalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Puig de la Bellacasa, M. (2017). Matters of care: Speculative ethics in more than human worlds. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Rights of nature and legal ecologies entries in More Posthuman Glossary, including “EcoLaw,” “Humus Economicus,” “Syndemic,” and “Hydrofeminism.”

embodiment

Ahmed, S. (2014). The cultural politics of emotion (2nd ed.). Edinburgh University Press.
Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke University Press. Publisher
Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant matter: A political ecology of things. Duke University Press.
Braidotti, R., & Hlavajova, M. (Eds.). (2018). Posthuman glossary. Bloomsbury. [ Braidotti, R., Jones, E., & Klumbytė, G. (Eds.). (2022). More posthuman glossary. Bloomsbury. Haraway, D. (1991). Simians, cyborgs, and women: The reinvention of nature. Routledge.
Haraway, D. (1997). Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse™. Routledge.
Massumi, B. (2002). Parables for the virtual: Movement, affect, sensation. Duke University Press.
Nail, T. (2019). Theory of the image. Oxford University Press.
NeCamp, S., & DeChaine, D. R. (Eds.). (2024). Rhetoric, writing, and AI: Teaching with and about large language models. Utah State University Press.
Stewart, K. (2007). Ordinary affects. Duke University Press.

emergence

Ahmed, S. (2004). The cultural politics of emotion. Edinburgh University Press.
Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke University Press.
Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant matter: A political ecology of things. Duke University Press.
Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1987). A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia (B. Massumi, Trans.). University of Minnesota Press.
Massumi, B. (2015). Politics of affect. Polity. Stewart, K. (2007). Ordinary affects. Duke University Press.
Taylor, C. A., & Bayley, A. (Eds.). (2019). Posthumanism and higher education: Reimagining pedagogy, practice and research. Palgrave Macmillan.

enactment

Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/meeting-the-universe-halfway Barad, K. (2003). Posthumanist performativity: Toward an understanding of how matter comes to matter. Signs, 28(3), 801–831. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/345321 Haraway, D. (1988). Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective. Feminist Studies, 14(3), 575–599. Haraway, D. (1997). Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism and technoscience. Routledge. Mol, A. (2002). The body multiple: Ontology in medical practice. Duke University Press. Law, J. (2004). After method: Mess in social science research. Routledge.

Thiele, K., & van der Tuin, I. (Eds.). (2017). Posthuman glossary. Bloomsbury. Dolphijn, R., & van der Tuin, I. (2012). New materialism: Interviews & cartographies. Open Humanities Press. (Includes interview with Barad on matter, feeling, and practice.)

For a concise overview of Barad’s method and terminology:
Open Readings. (n.d.). Karen Barad. Includes references and links to key articles. https://openreadings.wordpress.com/texts/karen-barad/

entanglement

Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/meeting-the-universe-halfway Barad, K. (2014). Diffracting diffraction: Cutting together-apart. Parallax, 20(3), 168–187. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2014.927623 Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant matter: A political ecology of things. Duke University Press. Braidotti, R. (2019). Posthuman knowledge. Polity. Braidotti, R., & Hlavajova, M. (Eds.). (2018). Posthuman glossary. Bloomsbury. Braidotti, R., Jones, E., & Klumbytė, G. (Eds.). (2022). More posthuman glossary. Bloomsbury. Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1987). A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia (B. Massumi, Trans.). University of Minnesota Press. Haraway, D. (2016). Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press. Massumi, B. (2015). Politics of affect. Polity. Ahmed, S. (2014). The cultural politics of emotion (2nd ed.). Edinburgh University Press. Strom, K., & Mills, C. (2021). What counts as data in posthuman research? New views on evidence in educational research. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 53(12), 1317–1328. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2020.1772026 Ulmer, J. B. (2017). Writing slow ontology. Qualitative Inquiry, 23(3), 201–211. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800416661480

ethico-onto-epistem-ology

Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/meeting-the-universe-halfway
Barad, K. (2003). Posthumanist performativity: Toward an understanding of how matter comes to matter. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 28(3), 801–831.
Barad, K. (2014). Diffracting diffraction: Cutting together-apart. Parallax, 20(3), 168–187.
Haraway, D. (1988). Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective. Feminist Studies, 14(3), 575–599.
New Materialism Almanac. (2016). Ethico-onto-epistem-ology (E. Geerts). https://newmaterialism.eu/almanac/e/ethico-onto-epistem-ology.html
New Materialism Almanac. (2018). Phenomena – Agential realism (S. Sauzet). https://newmaterialism.eu/almanac/p/phenomena-agential-realism.html
Rouse, J. (2004). Barad’s agential realism. Hypatia, 19(1), 142–161.
Hollin, G., Forsyth, I., Giraud, E., & Potts, T. (2017). (Dis)entangling Barad: Materialisms and ethics. Social Studies of Science, 47(6), 918–941.

ethics

Ahmed, S. (2014). Willful subjects. Duke University Press. Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke University Press. Barad, K. (2014). Diffracting diffraction: Cutting together-apart. Parallax, 20(3), 168–187. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2014.927623 Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant matter: A political ecology of things. Duke University Press. Braidotti, R. (2013). The posthuman. Polity. Braidotti, R. (2019). Posthuman knowledge. Polity. Haraway, D. (1988). Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective. Feminist Studies, 14(3), 575–599. Haraway, D. (2016). Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press. Lenz Taguchi, H. (2010). Going beyond the theory/practice divide in early childhood education: Introducing an intra-active pedagogy. Routledge. Puig de la Bellacasa, M. (2017). Matters of care: Speculative ethics in more than human worlds. University of Minnesota Press. Zylinska, J. (2014). Minimal ethics for the Anthropocene. Open Humanities Press. https://doi.org/10.3998/ohp.12329362.0001.001

fearful materialism

Ahmed, S. (2014). The cultural politics of emotion (2nd ed.). Edinburgh University Press.
Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke University Press.
Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant matter: A political ecology of things. Duke University Press.
Braidotti, R. (2013). The posthuman. Polity.
Braidotti, R. (2019). Posthuman knowledge. Polity.
Massumi, B. (2015). Politics of affect. Polity.
Papacharissi, Z. (2015). Affective publics: Sentiment, technology, and politics. Oxford University Press.
Seigworth, G. J., & Gregg, M. (2010). An inventory of shimmers. In M. Gregg & G. J. Seigworth (Eds.), The affect theory reader (pp. 1–25). Duke University Press.
Thrift, N. (2008). Non-representational theory: Space, politics, affect. Routledge.

intensity

Ahmed, S. (2004). The cultural politics of emotion. Routledge.
Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/meeting-the-universe-halfway
Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant matter: A political ecology of things. Duke University Press.
Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1987). A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia (B. Massumi, Trans.). University of Minnesota Press.
Massumi, B. (2002). Parables for the virtual: Movement, affect, sensation. Duke University Press.
Massumi, B. (2015). Politics of affect. Polity.
Seigworth, G. J., & Gregg, M. (2010). An inventory of shimmers. In M. Gregg & G. J. Seigworth (Eds.), The affect theory reader (pp. 1–28). Duke University Press.

Related overview of Barad’s oeuvre and key articles list: Open Readings—Karen Barad page (selection of publications and links). https://openreadings.wordpress.com/texts/karen-barad/

material-discursivity

Ahmed, S. (2014). The cultural politics of emotion (2nd ed.). Edinburgh University Press.
Barad, K. (2003). Posthumanist performativity: Toward an understanding of how matter comes to matter. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 28(3), 801–831.
Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke University Press.
Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant matter: A political ecology of things. Duke University Press.
Braidotti, R. (2013). The posthuman. Polity.
Haraway, D. (1988). Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective. Feminist Studies, 14(3), 575–599.
Massumi, B. (2015). Politics of affect. Polity.

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